Pension Pulse

JANUARY 24, 2024

The move follows a similar initiative by Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, announced last June. This decision is in line with the evolution of the real estate subsidiaries and numerous initiatives launched within the CDPQ group in recent years to implement best practices and achieve efficiency gains for CDPQ and its depositors.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

Read more TPG Growth, Temasek infuse $80m in eye hospital chain Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Chennai-based Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Ltd has secured $80m in funding from its existing. The new investments will be used to expand our Indian and International footprint, along with acquiring the latest technologies for super-specialty eyecare.”

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

We’re proud to work in concert with the Joint Sponsors to ensure the Plan is run efficiently, strategically, prudently, and in the best interest of all Plan members, exemplifying best practices as set out in the joint governance model. Importantly, divestment is a lazy strategy which is counterproductive in many ways.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

BCI is a pension fund for unionized employees and government employees in British Columbia and Western Canada, with gross assets under management of $250 billion. First, nobody is paid to go with smaller less well-known managers, The first job any pension fund manager has is to manage career risk. A few quick points here.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Speaking of heightened transparency, it would be nice if Canada's large pensions funds provided a lot more details on the carbon emissions in their own portfolios. No doubt, the Canadian pension fund industry is a trailblazer in best practices for risk management but more needs to be done.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2023

Business Wire reports that Norway's sovereign fund tops global transparency ranking: TORONTO — Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2023 findings.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Big pension funds invest in big student housing programs because they're recession-proof businesses that add defensive cashflows to their portfolio. That's obviously important, but there's a defensive component to purpose-built student accommodation that pension funds very attractive. What about Canada? student housing.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2024

Co-investments will also allow UPP to develop shared best practice and a consistent approach to risk-return assessments including accessing opportunities at the intersection of asset classes, he continues. “Co-investments Co-investments are a critical part of our strategy. He says the skills of the team is already born fruit.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Stack is leading the real estate industry to new levels of sustainability and reflects Oxford’s commitment to integrating ESG best practices throughout our assets,” commented Andrew O’Neil, Vice President of Development, Oxford Properties. Canada's pension funds saw the writing on the wall before the pandemic hit.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For us, it's a question of returns and what's in the best interest of our depositors." I told him I track pension funds very closely and there's no doubt CDPQ is a global leader in sustainable/ responsible investing. He added that over the last en years, their green assets have been outperforming non-green assets.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

That's why the last-mile logistics sector continues to offer solid fundamentals and Canada's pension funds all have invested in this sector in Europe and elsewhere via strong strategic partnerships (joint ventures where they put up most of the capital and pay no fees).

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. And Canadian pensions have adopted some of their best practices and applied them to pension investment.

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